đź’¬ Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
To learn more about configuration, usage and features of The Lounge, take a look at the website.
The Lounge is the official and community-managed fork of Shout, by Mattias Erming.
The Lounge requires latest Node.js LTS version or more recent.
Yarn package manager is also recommended.
If you want to install with npm,
--unsafe-permis required for a correct install.
Please refer to the install and upgrade documentation on our website for all available installation methods.
The following commands install and run the development version of The Lounge:
git clone https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge.git cd thelounge yarn install NODE_ENV=production yarn build yarn start
When installed like this,
theloungeexecutable is not created. Use
node indexto run commands.
⚠️ While it is the most recent codebase, this is not production-ready! Run at your own risk. It is also not recommended to run this as root.
Simply follow the instructions to run The Lounge from source above, on your own fork.
Before submitting any change, make sure to:
yarn testto execute linters and test suite
yarn buildif you change or add anything in
client/jsor
client/views
yarn devcan be used to start The Lounge with hot module reloading